I think, the problem that rule says "on-the-ground" and if it doesn't mean on-the-ground and people *cannot find it, * for example there is no sign at all like houses missing the number plate or abandonned houses or forest / national park divisions.
Indeed, mail address is one of the possibility to check but they are not consistent. Sending 2 emails to correct-like address could give contradicting results easily because they are human processed. There is no need to discredit the rule, especially where it couldn't applied, there is a need to enhance the rule for a non-physical objects which are mostly driven by documents. And OSM was always fine to accept these imports driven by municipality documents. On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 12:28, Jochen Topf <joc...@remote.org> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 01:08:35PM +0200, Tomas Straupis wrote: > > I had an actual situation 5 or so years ago when an address was > > mapped in Vilnius. Address does not exist in official records. The > > user sent me a picture of this house number. I contacted municipality > > ant they explained that the sign is not an official one, it means > > nothing, there is no such address. > > It seems you haven't understood the on-the-ground rule 5 years ago and > you still haven't. For all intents and purposes there is such an > address. Mail will arrive there, people can find the house when looking > for it. It doesn't matter what the official record says. It doesn't > matter whether the address should be there or not according to some > authority. The address is there and it should be mapped that way. That > is what on-the-ground rule means. It works in practice. It works well. > And, yes, there are always corner cases. But that's no reason to > discredit the rule. > > Jochen > -- > Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org https://www.jochentopf.com/ > +49-351-31778688 > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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